Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm tell you easy
Speaker 1: Boston News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks very much, Dan Watkins. Let's get back
Speaker 2: to the calls. Let's give them Ken an opportunity. Ken,
Speaker 2: you wanted to add something before you left, Go right ahead.
Speaker 3: You had talked about, you know, are we comfortable, you know,
Speaker 3: with where we are. Trump's you know, moderate modifying or
Speaker 3: moderating some of his positions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis
Speaker 3: released their advanced estimate for Q one of twenty twenty five, right,
Speaker 3: and they're saying the GDP is going to contract by
Speaker 3: zero point three percent. So if that's true, you know,
Speaker 3: it's going to be interesting to see how the markets are.
Speaker 4: Going to react.
Speaker 3: Also, you know, some a lot of some economists are
Speaker 3: saying for this year it's already too late, right, that
Speaker 3: orders have gone way down because of the terrorist's threats
Speaker 3: of terroriffs, that kind of thing. So I'm not comfortable yet, Love,
Speaker 3: each that was just.
Speaker 2: Well, would you get comfortable? Be sure to let me know.
Speaker 2: And if you kid continue to be uncomfortable, feel free
Speaker 2: to always call the program and make whatever whatever point
Speaker 2: you'd like to make. I was listening to one of
Speaker 2: the newscasts today and there was I think there was
Speaker 2: a poll that someone did. I kind of heard it
Speaker 2: out of the corner of my ear and basically said
Speaker 2: that Trump people couldn't understand why Trump was holding as
Speaker 2: strong as he was. Uh. And someone said that they
Speaker 2: did a deep analysis of the poll and they essentially
Speaker 2: found out that the people who supported Donald Trump, you know,
Speaker 2: didn't pay attention or it was basically trying to say
Speaker 2: people supported Donald Trump was stupid. I just think that,
Speaker 2: you know, that's you know, so, you know, We're three
Speaker 2: months into four years of Donald Trump, and I'm just
Speaker 2: saying that if you if you look at the Middle East,
Speaker 2: if you look at the fact that he's on the
Speaker 2: phone with Putin today. To the best of my note,
Speaker 2: I don't know that Biden ever attempted to to push
Speaker 2: Putin towards peace talks. I mean, I guess Putin can't
Speaker 2: continue this war as long as he wants, but I'm
Speaker 2: hopeful that at least he's talking to somebody.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know what, I'll back off on my
Speaker 3: I'll say, listening to Trump this week, it sounds like
Speaker 3: he's trying to give piece a chance to quote you.
Speaker 5: My argument has always.
Speaker 2: Some singers from back in the day.
Speaker 6: I know who you are.
Speaker 3: I'm a baby boomer too. But what I was just
Speaker 3: going to say, Dan, My final point I was just
Speaker 3: going to say is my argument has been Trump has
Speaker 3: been trying to get he's been trying to broke Ukraine surrender.
Speaker 3: It has been my opinion, now that he's finally getting
Speaker 3: irritated with Putin, maybe he'll be able to, you know,
Speaker 3: make something happen. I don't see.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to see World War III.
Speaker 2: I'm not looking to witness the nuclear exchange between Russia
Speaker 2: and the United States. It's okay. I just think it's
Speaker 2: a weird deal going on over there. You've got Chinese
Speaker 2: troops over there, You've got North Korean troops going on.
Speaker 2: I don't think that most people realize what's going on
Speaker 2: over there. That's all, you know.
Speaker 3: If China's yeah, I mean, the real problem I had
Speaker 3: I've mentioned this year before, just that if if we
Speaker 3: don't show strength, we don't support Ukraine one hundred and
Speaker 3: ten percent. I mean, you've got to figure China's going
Speaker 3: to go into Taiwan or at least that raises that risk.
Speaker 3: So that's the other concern, right.
Speaker 2: But then the question, and again we could go on
Speaker 2: all night, But then the question is wet show strength.
Speaker 2: Do we put the eighty second Airport Airborne Division in there?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: But Russia's paying an awful price. I mean, they are
Speaker 3: losing more troops than Ukraine. We just stay with Ukraine,
Speaker 3: stay the course and home.
Speaker 6: That would be enough.
Speaker 2: It's hurt China, all right, man, I got to run long,
Speaker 2: long gone. Thank you so much, Dan, enjoyed. Tell you friends, Okay,
Speaker 2: I have a great one ken okay, one line at
Speaker 2: six one seven thirty. We have one couple of two lines.
Speaker 2: Actually it's six one seven ninety. Jump on board. The
Speaker 2: question is pretty simple. Do you get a sense that
Speaker 2: the political wins have shifted a little bit in the
Speaker 2: favor of Donald Trump? That's what I'm feeling. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Let's see what Rick up in Dover, New Hampshire has
Speaker 2: to say. Rick, welcome back, How are you?
Speaker 6: Hey? All right? How you doing damn good?
Speaker 2: Appreciate your patience holding through the news. You're up next,
Speaker 2: go right ahead.
Speaker 6: Well, I think maybe Trump's starting to tone it down,
Speaker 6: at least I hope so you know, I don't know
Speaker 6: if he's just getting tired or old or whatever. But
Speaker 6: I mean, I look at his pledge. You know, it's
Speaker 6: all to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. And then
Speaker 6: he says a national TV he doesn't know what the
Speaker 6: Constitution says.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 2: He didn't quite say it that way. Rick, I mean,
Speaker 2: I again, don't put me into the position where he
Speaker 2: said he was asked for a definition of due process, okay,
Speaker 2: and in answer to the question from an NBC News reporter,
Speaker 2: he said, uh. And his answer was, actually, I thought
Speaker 2: a pretty sophisticated answer, which was he has lawyers to
Speaker 2: figure that out. And we've been through this before, not
Speaker 2: you and me, but the phrase due process in the Constitution,
Speaker 2: in the fifth and in the fourth and again in
Speaker 2: the fourteenth Amendment talks about equal protection, due process before
Speaker 2: the law, which are which are what all of us
Speaker 2: would aspire to. But it doesn't mean that every human
Speaker 2: being who happens to be standing on us oil has
Speaker 2: the same level of due process. That's that's not what
Speaker 2: he was trying to say.
Speaker 6: Okay, I can get that, But what I'm saying is,
Speaker 6: wouldn't you ask your experts, your lawyers before you decide
Speaker 6: to just go and do it. Oh well, at the
Speaker 6: court figure it out afterwards. I don't care if it's legal.
Speaker 6: I mean, what part of the oath doesn't he know?
Speaker 6: He's supposed to find these things out before he just
Speaker 6: goes and does something.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you that he's had plenty of conversations with
Speaker 2: his lawyers, and as a matter of fact, his Solicitor
Speaker 2: General today secured what is a considered to be a
Speaker 2: victory for the Trump administration at the US Supreme Court
Speaker 2: dealing with the temporary protected status of Venezuela.
Speaker 6: I've got that, and I think that's well within his rights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 6: I think that's fine. I agree with that. I'm just
Speaker 6: saying I don't have much confidence of the guy that
Speaker 6: takes an oath and doesn't know what's in the oath,
Speaker 6: because maybe he didn't read the Constitution.
Speaker 2: I suspect that.
Speaker 6: I kind of wonder.
Speaker 2: He has a passing familiarity with the constitutions. Okay, so look, look,
Speaker 2: you're not a Trump guy, which is fine, Which is fine.
Speaker 6: I'm trying. I'm trying to be open minded, you know,
Speaker 6: but I guess.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you. Let me ask you a couple
Speaker 2: of questions. Okay, let me ask you questions. Were you
Speaker 2: happy that he was spending a couple of hours talking
Speaker 2: to Putin today about Ukraine and Russia?
Speaker 6: If we only knew what he was talking about. Is
Speaker 6: he talking about another playing or a golf course or
Speaker 6: what is he talking about?
Speaker 2: That's well again, maybe he's talking with Putin about the
Speaker 2: NFL draft coming. I mean, if you want to be serious.
Speaker 6: As long as it works. If it works, it works,
Speaker 6: you know, got something done? Yeah, well all cheer on
Speaker 6: that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well nothing's been completed. But at least he's talking
Speaker 2: to Putin about standing down? Okay, how much? How many
Speaker 2: times did Joe Biden talk to Putin about what's going
Speaker 2: on in Ukraine?
Speaker 6: I don't think he talked to him at all.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 2: You're correct, you're correct, No, you're correct, you're correct.
Speaker 6: You know you're correct.
Speaker 2: You're correct.
Speaker 6: You're a caller, and when I agree with you're on
Speaker 6: a caller. You just talk to that us. Not standing
Speaker 6: strong with Ukraine kind of opens the door and he
Speaker 6: gives the okay to China to go ahead and grab Taiwan.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, so so standing strong with Ukraine? What does
Speaker 2: standing strong with Ukraine mean to you.
Speaker 6: Well, it means standing with the European Block and Europe
Speaker 6: that basically saying we're going to stand with Ukraine.
Speaker 2: I mean, so what about if so? What about if?
Speaker 2: What about if Zelinski calls you President Rick? It's says
Speaker 2: President Rick, I know that you think you should stand
Speaker 2: strong with us, and I need about twenty five thousand
Speaker 2: members of the eighty second Earborne to parachute into my
Speaker 2: country and get these Russian sobs out of here. Is
Speaker 2: that standing strong with Ukraine? I think that's standing strong
Speaker 2: with Ukraine. Do you think that's standing strong with Ukraine?
Speaker 6: Bob, Yeah, I'd have to say. I mean that's what
Speaker 6: Churchill did, right, Churchill, that's nothing. Didn't want to get
Speaker 6: into that war, but Churchill documento it.
Speaker 2: Churchill didn't have much of a choice once. I look, let's.
Speaker 6: Stay with it.
Speaker 2: You know. Church it was the Germans were bombing the
Speaker 2: heck out of London day and night. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 2: Churchill chose not to surrender. Churchill is sort of what
Speaker 2: Zelensky is right now. He's not gonna surrender. But what again,
Speaker 2: you're saying to me, we're gonna have standing strong, all right?
Speaker 2: We should stand strong. So I'm asking you, Rick, let's
Speaker 2: say tomorrow morning. Donald Trump said, I was listening to
Speaker 2: Night Side last night in Boston, and Rick called and
Speaker 2: said we should send twenty five thousand US eighty second
Speaker 2: AMP one troops. Do you think that's a good idea, Rick.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't like to see it.
Speaker 2: I mean, oh good, okay, how about this, about this,
Speaker 2: about this? How about if we decide, President Rick, I
Speaker 2: got a great idea, let's stand strong with Ukraine. And
Speaker 2: how about if we threaten we get you on the
Speaker 2: phone with Putin tomorrow and you say to Putin, if
Speaker 2: you don't end this war within seventy two hours, we're
Speaker 2: gonna nuke Moscow. That'd be standing right. Okay, good enough.
Speaker 2: So at least I've found something that President Rick, even
Speaker 2: though you're ready to stand strong, will not do. President
Speaker 2: Rick always always good to talk with the President. Rick.
Speaker 2: We'll talk again. Okay, you have a good dud. Thanks,
Speaker 2: good night. We take a break. Coming back on Night's.
Speaker 2: I got some lines six one, seven, two, five four
Speaker 2: to ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I just want to get a definition of due process
Speaker 2: and standing strong. We'll be back on Nightside. Don't blame me.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to John and Framingham, John and freming him.
Speaker 7: Welcome back, John, Dan, Good evening, sir.
Speaker 2: How are you doing great? Doing great? What's your take?
Speaker 2: I'm simply positing the theory that things in the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks have been going better for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Just just a simple suggestion. I'm wondering if you agree
Speaker 2: or disagree.
Speaker 7: No, I mean, I'll tell you I I certainly agree.
Speaker 2: I think you know, you.
Speaker 7: Had the Trump trade coming through the end of last
Speaker 7: year into this year. As far as Walfree goes, that's
Speaker 7: a lot of momentum moving forwards.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: Liberation Day didn't seem to help to too much or
Speaker 7: with a following you know, subject went two and a
Speaker 7: half through weeks. But but since then, man, I mean,
Speaker 7: things have been things have been good. I want to
Speaker 7: give President Rick a shout out from last ashon that
Speaker 7: was pretty good.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I get my ball room one day. I don't know,
Speaker 7: we'll see, but uh yeah, man, I gotta say things
Speaker 7: have been good. And I'll tell you I was at
Speaker 7: the Red SOX game tonight, which which you know, put
Speaker 7: the spark in my head. We were listening to on
Speaker 7: the way home, you know.
Speaker 4: But you know, you hear, you know, a minutor.
Speaker 7: To a banter and you're like, okay, I'm not as
Speaker 7: well die with phone.
Speaker 9: Uh you know, I forget that, I forget the gentleman's name,
Speaker 9: but uh, there was it was a you know, whatever
Speaker 9: was the hamas you hostage four hundred and seventy some
Speaker 9: odd days, probably more they you were, you.
Speaker 7: Know, five hundred days or so. Yeah, you know, we
Speaker 7: got there and through the opening pitch and you know,
Speaker 7: I mean, oh, really about.
Speaker 2: So that the American Israeli hostage who was released about
Speaker 2: a week ago, throughout the opening pitch tonight. Oh that's great.
Speaker 7: I can't I can't confirm it was it was that
Speaker 7: particular one, but it was pretty recent, got to tell you.
Speaker 7: And you know, young guy, handsome guy, and and threw
Speaker 7: the pitch and just you know, everything, you know was
Speaker 7: America pointing to the flag, hand over the heart.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: I was surprised how good the guy looked, and because
Speaker 2: he's been there with the five hundred days and yeah,
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, that was in he actually
Speaker 2: gave some credit. He said I wouldn't be here, not today.
Speaker 2: But when he was released, he said he wouldn't be
Speaker 2: here for it was of Donald Trump, right right.
Speaker 7: And that's what and that's what really makes you angry about.
Speaker 7: I mean, it doesn't matter what year it is, doesn't
Speaker 7: matter what presidential cycle we're talking about. Is come on, guys,
Speaker 7: we're on the same team, you know. And I was
Speaker 7: listening to a couple. I mean, I've been listening, as
Speaker 7: you can tell, on the phone, for you know, twenty
Speaker 7: some odd minutes. And okay, great, you know, Okay, people
Speaker 7: hate Trump, people love Trump, but it doesn't end here.
Speaker 7: It doesn't start here. It's gonna happen throughout time, and
Speaker 7: we can just learn to get together and learn. Okay,
Speaker 7: it doesn't matter who's in charge, but something good happens,
Speaker 7: you know, clap my hand, so be it. I'm not
Speaker 7: a Trump guy. I wasn't a Biden guy. I did
Speaker 7: vote for Trump, but the other day, you know, doesn't
Speaker 7: make a difference to me independent, you know, through and through.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: It was time. I think it was time for change.
Speaker 2: And obviously I feel very sorry for what was disclosed
Speaker 2: about President Biden in the last twenty four hours. Uh,
Speaker 2: and clearly, uh, he was struggling and and the media
Speaker 2: chose to ignore it for the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: It was a tough couple of years. By the way,
Speaker 2: it was interesting that, you know, the Mets who lost
Speaker 2: tonight to the Red Sox, they had a pretty good
Speaker 2: pitcher going for them who had an era of like
Speaker 2: a buck and a half, and the Red Sox kind
Speaker 2: of lit this guy up tonight. That's a pretty good
Speaker 2: sign for the Red Sox tonight because they won three
Speaker 2: to one. I like this Kick Dobbins who started. He
Speaker 2: didn't get the win, but he's pitched like five or
Speaker 2: six games now and he's you know, I don't know
Speaker 2: where he came out of, but he wasn't considered it
Speaker 2: is going to be in the starting rotation. How'd you
Speaker 2: what does you feel about the Red Sox start at
Speaker 2: the time, he only went four and two thirds and
Speaker 2: didn't qualify for the win. But he's been pretty impressive
Speaker 2: of this kid.
Speaker 7: Now, let me so, I'll tell you in so, I'm
Speaker 7: not well, I mean I haven't followed, you know, religiously
Speaker 7: last you know, half a dozen years. Uh, But I'll
Speaker 7: give a quick shout out here, real quick. Uh So,
Speaker 7: me and my my brother and my parents went down
Speaker 7: to see the Red Sox mess game because they're all
Speaker 7: die hard uh Sox fans, and my uncle who passed
Speaker 7: in the fall was a die hard Mess fan from
Speaker 7: Long Island, New York. Okay, So we said, what a
Speaker 7: what a perfect game to go through. So shouts uncle Kim,
Speaker 7: Well we miss your brother. Uh and he's up there
Speaker 7: looking down at us right now and he's you're probably
Speaker 7: clap in his hands as he passed. More of the election,
Speaker 7: big Trump guy. But but so uh no, that's great.
Speaker 2: But well, it was nice to see the Red Sox
Speaker 2: win and let him went at home.
Speaker 5: Let's do it.
Speaker 7: I was happy to see it.
Speaker 2: You got it? Hey? Have you called before, John or no?
Speaker 2: The first time calling?
Speaker 7: I've called a longtime listener, second time caller, But it
Speaker 7: wasn't you on the other end. It was back in September.
Speaker 7: I don't remember where you were, but I called in
Speaker 7: to talk about the economy and the election if that
Speaker 7: was going to push and pull election votes.
Speaker 2: And I'm asking some of your callers. You sound like
Speaker 2: you're a young guy.
Speaker 7: How will you twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Do me a favorite. I want you to make it
Speaker 2: a point of listening more to nightside, and I want
Speaker 2: to hear more from you. I mean that seriously. I
Speaker 2: get a wide variety of callers, but I really want
Speaker 2: to try to develop as many an audience of younger
Speaker 2: young callers as well. So please, it's true.
Speaker 7: It's true. Absolutely, it's a little bit damn. Let me
Speaker 7: ask you, what do you want to hear from me?
Speaker 7: I can talk all night.
Speaker 2: Well, any subject we talk about, I want to know.
Speaker 2: Also what I want to hear from you also is
Speaker 2: what topics are you interested in hearing about?
Speaker 5: I'll tell you.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you. So I work with a lot of
Speaker 7: young I mean, I'm twenty seven, but you know I
Speaker 7: work with young people compared to me professional you know,
Speaker 7: I said, and won't disclose where I work, but you
Speaker 7: know they're all postgraduates, professional careers in finance. And you
Speaker 7: know I mean, and every time I listen in it
Speaker 7: seems to you somehow, one way or another, get political.
Speaker 7: I guess that's just like anything else these days.
Speaker 5: But well, you know, I think.
Speaker 7: I'll give you some undisclosed opinion, not undisclosed, but unwarranted
Speaker 7: and unasked for. But I mean, you know, I guess
Speaker 7: you look over history and the young people always want
Speaker 7: to go and they want to be the contrarian. They
Speaker 7: want to be you know, grunge or whatever you want
Speaker 7: to call it, which which funny enough. I mean, this
Speaker 7: could just be my opinion from from my point of view,
Speaker 7: because you know, I'm I guess said twenty seven. Don't
Speaker 7: have the news, don't have anything. Any news. I guess
Speaker 7: from the radio is ten thirty if you a night
Speaker 7: that when I'm driving. But I'll tell you from what
Speaker 7: I see, you know, on the day to day is
Speaker 7: I think young people who want to you know, prove
Speaker 7: themselves to society as contrarians. I think I don't know
Speaker 7: what happened in the last X number of years, but
Speaker 7: everyone's everyone's talking about, you know, economies as economy that
Speaker 7: you know, republican, that's republican, that farther than I am.
Speaker 7: And like I said before, I'm not so you know
Speaker 7: something to think about. I think I think it's it's
Speaker 7: they love the underdog story. I think they want to be,
Speaker 7: you know, whatever they think the most people aren't, frankly,
Speaker 7: and in these days, I think it's you know, being
Speaker 7: a Republican right, wrong or indifferent.
Speaker 2: So well, look, I appreciate it. And again, whatever subjects
Speaker 2: that we have interest you, and we do politics, but
Speaker 2: we don't do politics night after night after night. I
Speaker 2: couldn't stand ding politics night after night after night. We
Speaker 2: try to hit a variety of topics during the course
Speaker 2: of the week, so that again we try to It's
Speaker 2: it's like if you go to a steak place and
Speaker 2: they only serve steak. After a while, you're gonna feel
Speaker 2: like eating chicken and you're gonna go somewhere else. I
Speaker 2: want to have a menu here that appeals to as
Speaker 2: many people as possible. And I got to tell you, John,
Speaker 2: I you know, I kind of I can't tell you much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that you take the time of call in tonight.
Speaker 7: I really may appreciate you doing what you do.
Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy, talk to you soon. Thanks, have a
Speaker 2: great one. That's a great call. That's a great call.
Speaker 2: We'll take a break. It's eleven thirty. Ready for the news.
Speaker 2: I got Tim, I got Patrick, Larry and Paul. Ladies.
Speaker 2: Where are you tonight? Women?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: One of our best callers tonight was Lauren from Plymouth, ladies,
Speaker 2: light it up, coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Ray on WA Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling, Gonna go to Tim and Wilburn, Tim
Speaker 2: next to Nightsick, go right ahead, Tim.
Speaker 6: Thanks you taking my call, Dan Beny. I haven't take
Speaker 6: my hat off to Trump for uh dealing with Putin.
Speaker 6: He's trying, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, Putin's a tough tough nut to crack, but
Speaker 2: maybe he can convince him that it's in his country's
Speaker 2: it's interest to stand down. And if he does that,
Speaker 2: you gotta give him credit. I mean, at least he's
Speaker 2: trying to he's trying to talk to him. He did
Speaker 2: spend two hours today. That's a that's a lot of time,
Speaker 2: A lot of time.
Speaker 4: A lot of times.
Speaker 6: I don't think Biden has done that.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't believe Biden ever talked to Putin
Speaker 2: during his four years in the White House. I think
Speaker 2: that he watched as Putin, uh, you know, amassed his
Speaker 2: troops on the border. I think that Biden Biden said
Speaker 2: to him President former President Biden said don't do this,
Speaker 2: don't do this, and Putin did it. And I don't
Speaker 2: think that they ever had you know President Biden has
Speaker 2: Former President Biden had his trips to Europe and talked
Speaker 2: with the NATO people and all of that, made a
Speaker 2: trip to Kiev, he went to remember, he took that
Speaker 2: train trip, but never engaged with Putin. And again, I
Speaker 2: think that even if he's a bad guy, I'd rather
Speaker 2: talk to him and see if you could, if you
Speaker 2: could figure out what he's thinking.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I think Trump is a smart guy.
Speaker 6: He's smart.
Speaker 2: Well he I think that in terms of this what
Speaker 2: he's endured. Uh, he's certainly been tested. Uh. And let's see,
Speaker 2: let's see where we are. I think that in the
Speaker 2: last few weeks the political wins have kind of shifted
Speaker 2: in his direction. Now they may shift out.
Speaker 6: Without a doubt, without a doubt, I think too, you
Speaker 6: give them a little time. I think the gas only
Speaker 6: price is going to come down. I think things are
Speaker 6: going to get better.
Speaker 2: I would hope so, for all of our sakes, that's all, man.
Speaker 2: I'm root for things to get better. Whoever's in the world,
Speaker 2: who's ever in the White House. I want I want
Speaker 2: my gas prices lower. I want people to be able
Speaker 2: to buy homes and want all of that. That's what
Speaker 2: that's what the country's about. Tim. Thanks.
Speaker 6: I want the gas prices.
Speaker 2: Lower and the food lower. Same. Same, We're in the
Speaker 2: same page, absolutely, Tim, Thank you much. My friend will
Speaker 2: talk soon. Okay, thank you again.
Speaker 6: Thanks for the uh you.
Speaker 2: Bet you Let me go to Patrick and chops down
Speaker 2: Patrick next on nightside.
Speaker 5: Go ahead?
Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing, Dan?
Speaker 2: Hey, sounds like you're outside tonight. You are outside?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I'm sitting on my phone.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe it was maybe a course to speak a
Speaker 4: button by accent and hamming out perfectly perfectly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounded like there was wind blowing. I thought
Speaker 2: you might have been out.
Speaker 4: I have a fan at my desk when I'm working
Speaker 4: late at night, man, So I always I always have
Speaker 4: an artist me cool manead Yes, uh so, just this
Speaker 4: isn't my main point, but just just that that older
Speaker 4: gentleman seemed like a really nice guy who.
Speaker 6: Called the one thing.
Speaker 4: It always bothers me when people bring up the statement
Speaker 4: on the Statue of Liberty about you know, give us
Speaker 4: you're tired, and you're poor and and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: It always bothers me as that as a means to
Speaker 4: end a debate, as a means to forestall and preclude
Speaker 4: any debate on immigration that for now on. When we
Speaker 4: invoke that, anyone who invokes that ten to just be
Speaker 4: of the mindset. But that means that we can't have
Speaker 4: any reasonable restrictions on immigration whatsoever, or we are just
Speaker 4: terrible people. It doesn't preclude us from debating having an
Speaker 4: immigration debate.
Speaker 6: It doesn't.
Speaker 4: So that's that's the first thing I said.
Speaker 2: I agree with you. And also, by the way, I
Speaker 2: remind people that President Obama was characterized as the Great
Speaker 2: Deporter because he deported somewhere around three million people during
Speaker 2: his term in office.
Speaker 4: And however devisive President Obama's administration was in certain ways,
Speaker 4: I actually have some respect for the guy. He actually
Speaker 4: did a lot of reasonable things, to be honest with
Speaker 4: Yet I'm not a Democrat, but one of them I
Speaker 4: just wanted to. Uh So, second thing, you asked if
Speaker 4: the political wills, the wins would change it, right, I
Speaker 4: almost believe that that was more of a statement than
Speaker 4: a question. And I agree with you that they are,
Speaker 4: and you can tell with this key things that show
Speaker 4: us that they are. Number One, Maura Healey. Maura Healey
Speaker 4: is proud and she's she's she's actually publicly proclaiming how
Speaker 4: it is a good thing that she's doing something to
Speaker 4: shut migrant shelters. That was impossible two years ago for
Speaker 4: a Democrat to say. Second, off, this is going national.
Speaker 4: Trump is a he's a historical figure. Keer Starmer, a
Speaker 4: radical left winger in England, in a paper, a paper
Speaker 4: from newsweek three days ago, says that they're worried about
Speaker 4: him using Trumpian language. He's starting to talk about enforcing
Speaker 4: borders in in in the United Kingdom for the first
Speaker 4: time in a long time. So the winds changed and absolutely,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, you know if people criticize this guy,
Speaker 4: you know, I was a readonauticle.
Speaker 8: From the New York Times Dan and it was it.
Speaker 4: Was about Portland, Maine, so it sort of hit close
Speaker 4: to home a little bit for us. We knew England
Speaker 4: and says that sentinel death slow meth comes from Maine.
Speaker 4: So this is how this honest the New York Times
Speaker 4: is right. So what they do is they bury in
Speaker 4: this article they focus on how meth is rising. Right,
Speaker 4: And if you read in the third paragraph that it
Speaker 4: says in Portland, where the fentanyl has become increasingly diluted
Speaker 4: and costly it's the first sentence of the third paragraph,
Speaker 4: which clearly shows that Trump's shutting down on the border
Speaker 4: has stopped the fentanyl trade into the United States and
Speaker 4: is saving lives by the thousands. The New York Times,
Speaker 4: instead of saying that, says meth is rising in Portland.
Speaker 4: So if you think tides are changing, man, I don't
Speaker 4: know that you're I think you're right, and I think
Speaker 4: it's for the best man.
Speaker 2: By the way, and when you refer to the Prime
Speaker 2: Minister of England, it's important to make note of the
Speaker 2: fact that he's a Labor Party prime minister. He's not
Speaker 2: a Conservative or Tory.
Speaker 4: That makes it even more amazing.
Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly, Patch, Thank you much of great content, and
Speaker 2: thank you very much for joining us tonight. And uh
Speaker 2: and keep it. How old are you Patrick?
Speaker 4: I'm how old are you?
Speaker 8: Ben?
Speaker 2: Uh? Don't tell me you're anywhere close to my age.
Speaker 4: Probably ten or fifteen years shy you, man, I told
Speaker 4: you when I was doing my l L m APU,
Speaker 4: I used to see a picture on the wall, so
Speaker 4: a little while, but not to the seventh or eighth floor,
Speaker 4: I can't remember, but I think it was.
Speaker 2: I think I was on the I was on the
Speaker 2: wall with Ed Brooke, uh and and and Cohen, Senator Cohen,
Speaker 2: Bill Cohen.
Speaker 4: That Olympian guy uh so. So the one last thing
Speaker 4: before I go, Dan, if you, if I may, Dan,
Speaker 4: I just an idea came across my head. Dan, why
Speaker 4: don't you call have your your producer called the Russian Embassy. Dan,
Speaker 4: you're an influential guy. Maybe Putin will come on your show, man,
Speaker 4: Maybe you'll come on your show. Maybe you're you're have
Speaker 4: more power than you realize. A lot of influential people
Speaker 4: listening to you.
Speaker 2: Man, Well, I appreciate that. The problem is there's going
Speaker 2: to be a lot of it. I don't think his
Speaker 2: English is too too good, and my Russians the only
Speaker 2: word in Russia I know in Russian.
Speaker 4: Is yet, Dan, you've dealt with a lot more, a
Speaker 4: lot more dangerous guys than him, I think. I don't
Speaker 4: think it would be much of a stuff for you
Speaker 4: to do this.
Speaker 2: I know, I know the guys. I know the guys.
Speaker 2: I know the guys you're talking about, and they were
Speaker 2: they were ex FBI agents who had guns and badges
Speaker 2: and were willing to use them for the wrong reasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, criminals with badges.
Speaker 2: Thank you, damn thanks Bell, thanks Patrick, appreciate it very much.
Speaker 2: LLM bu but take a no, I got a couple
Speaker 2: of open lines. Now fail me not, folks six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty and six one seven ninety. We've had a
Speaker 2: great night here, so let's finish with a bang. Gonna
Speaker 2: go to Angelo and Newton, my friend Angelo, Angelo, welcome back, Angelo,
Speaker 2: Thank you again.
Speaker 8: I hope he will be able to hand me.
Speaker 2: Ye know what, what do you got some lary gititis
Speaker 2: going on there?
Speaker 8: No, I got some health issues. I got a m Yeah,
Speaker 8: they'll p It's a different reflex I have coming on.
Speaker 4: The Okay, a lot of my voice for a couple
Speaker 4: of years.
Speaker 2: Okay, well you go ahead, God, go ahead. I'll listen
Speaker 2: to what you gotta say. Go ahead, Angelo, take your time.
Speaker 8: Did I hear you saying that they that they wanted
Speaker 8: to let the the what is the ven Whalen come
Speaker 8: in here?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, no no no. What happened today?
Speaker 4: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Then, but the US Supreme Court ruled today. They they
Speaker 2: basically said that Trump could could get rid of the
Speaker 2: the temporary protective status that had been extended to about
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty thousand venice whalens. Temporary protected status
Speaker 2: meant that none of those people could have been deported
Speaker 2: as long as temporary protective status existed. UH protected status.
Speaker 2: And as a consequence, those people now can be can
Speaker 2: be deported. The case in chief, that is still going
Speaker 2: to be decided at some point. We'll have to see
Speaker 2: how that how that gets resolved. But yeah, that's we're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a victory. It was a victory for the
Speaker 2: Trump administration at the US Supreme Court today, And I
Speaker 2: simply was poisoning the argument or the hypotheses that he
Speaker 2: just had a pretty good trip in the Middle East.
Speaker 2: He was on the phone with Putin for a couple
Speaker 2: of hours today. Uh, the border situation seems to have
Speaker 2: gotten a lot better than it was so and then
Speaker 2: I just felt the political wins were kind of shifting
Speaker 2: in his direction. That's the whole conversation.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, if they want to come in, they
Speaker 8: should be legal, like everybody else came in. This kind
Speaker 8: of illegal again.
Speaker 4: You know, when.
Speaker 8: Everybody came here from the long las Islum, they had
Speaker 8: to go through a lot, a lot.
Speaker 2: They certainly did. They certainly did. I want you to
Speaker 2: rest your voice. Angela, give me a call back next
Speaker 2: week and you're gonna feel better.
Speaker 8: Okay, thank you, Dan, You have a good event.
Speaker 2: Take care, Anchel'll have a great night. We'll take a break.
Speaker 2: I got some wide open lines. Come on, let's go
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty one line
Speaker 2: at six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. I
Speaker 2: got Laurie coming up on the other side of the break,
Speaker 2: and I got some room for you. Let's finish this
Speaker 2: thing strong tonight. My theory is that in the last
Speaker 2: two or three weeks, stock markets come back. Things are
Speaker 2: going a little bit better. The political wins. The political
Speaker 2: wins are now shifting a little bit towards in favor
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump. You don't have to agree with me.
Speaker 2: You can agree or disagree, disagree, make your arguments. We'll
Speaker 2: be back on Night's side right after this very quick break.
Speaker 2: It's eleven forty five. I got room for you. Give
Speaker 2: us a call, coming back on Night.
Speaker 1: Snid Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w BZY Boston's
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Speaker 2: OHR, I gonna go to Laurie and Melroy's. I know
Speaker 2: what will happen. There'll be about four people that are
Speaker 2: gonna call in the next two minutes and only one
Speaker 2: or two will get on. We got wide open lines six, one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, six, one, seven, nine, three, ten thirty. Let
Speaker 2: me talk with Laurie and Melrose. Hey, Laurie, welcome back.
Speaker 10: How are you okay?
Speaker 8: Hi?
Speaker 10: I am just very annoyed with all of us because Trump.
Speaker 10: Trump has been a fool with Putin for a long
Speaker 10: time and he's not exactly doing much at all. He'll
Speaker 10: call Putin and the people. I can't think of his name,
Speaker 10: but you know who he is, the Senator Conrad, very
Speaker 10: conservative southern Southerner. That's all for Trump. He knows that
Speaker 10: he has stated that Putin is it can't be true.
Speaker 2: I assume you might be talking about Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 10: Is that from I've been a republic in all my life,
Speaker 10: work for two national and local Republican I do not
Speaker 10: care for Trump. Trump has got a big ego and.
Speaker 2: He's no doubt about that, there's no question, but promises.
Speaker 10: And a lot of other things. And I'm sorry, but
Speaker 10: I don't like this happening has had happened in Gaza,
Speaker 10: with all the four children that have died and in
Speaker 10: the famine that's going on right now, and he's not.
Speaker 10: I don't see any progress with him working on the
Speaker 10: Israel Primary minister to get food in there for the
Speaker 10: national associations. I don't believe that he. I think he's
Speaker 10: is foolish and he's got that ego. He wants the
Speaker 10: real estate, he wants the God. Even he's stated over
Speaker 10: God could kick people out, take it over and make
Speaker 10: it into resort. His a lot of gold. But still
Speaker 10: it's like he's going to take over Canada and all
Speaker 10: these different things. Why do they focus on real issues
Speaker 10: and be a.
Speaker 2: Real Let me, let me, let me engage you with
Speaker 2: a conversation if I could. He I think has pretty
Speaker 2: much effectively closed the border. Is that something that you
Speaker 2: applaud or something you think is a mistake.
Speaker 10: Oh, I think I think that that has been But
Speaker 10: I'm they're saying all him, he's exactly doing it by
Speaker 10: a lot of threats. I would have preferred the Congress
Speaker 10: to get to have gotten together and finally you get
Speaker 10: some strong policy or give you a chance to figure
Speaker 10: out what you think. And he he shut it down
Speaker 10: because he didn't want. He didn't want He's afraid that
Speaker 10: the Democrats would get credit for it, so he shut
Speaker 10: it down.
Speaker 2: For a second, I'm trying to understand you. Okay, would
Speaker 2: you agree with me that for four years under the
Speaker 2: Biden administration the border was in effect wide open?
Speaker 10: Yes, just a scab on somebody else back now in
Speaker 10: the politics we're talking about now today.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly what I'm talking Worry what I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get at, Laurie. But I'm here's what I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get at. He has been president the second time
Speaker 2: for three months. So yes, So my question to you
Speaker 2: is the border now seems to be secure because of
Speaker 2: policies he put in place, and people are not coming
Speaker 2: over the border. Oh I'm sure there's a few, but
Speaker 2: they're not coming over the border at the pace they
Speaker 2: were coming over.
Speaker 10: So yes, that's nice.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing.
Speaker 10: There are other issues that are very bad. I don't
Speaker 10: like to see thousands of children discovering to death, okay,
Speaker 10: and Gaza. I do not like to see children that
Speaker 10: have been kidnapped in Ukraine. That doesn't get mentioned very often.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you what would you have him do.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't think too much as he can do because
Speaker 10: he's been kissing Putin's you.
Speaker 2: Know, no, we're talking guy for a long time. He
Speaker 2: likes Laury.
Speaker 10: He thinks Putin liked him.
Speaker 2: I'm desperately trying to have a conversation with Laurie here
Speaker 2: without much success. Laurie, what would you have Trump do
Speaker 2: about Gaza?
Speaker 10: Have the Gaza try to get the all this trucks
Speaker 10: and all the recent sources that are there to let
Speaker 10: them in. These four doctors will if you hear the news,
Speaker 10: the doctors and everything else is now he's going and bombing.
Speaker 10: You know, more children have been He's probably like twenty
Speaker 10: thousand kids have been killed. And then you got now
Speaker 10: seventeen thousand. Okay, sorry, I know two thousand and six
Speaker 10: that was not I mean, you know so October sixth
Speaker 10: that was wrong. It was horrible, but it's not their fault.
Speaker 10: It's not the average woman.
Speaker 2: So then I'll ask you this if I can. What
Speaker 2: should have net Nyaho done? Since it was net Yahoo
Speaker 2: who was fighting Hamas? Do you I assume you don't
Speaker 2: agree what what Yahoo was done?
Speaker 10: Don't No, I didn't. I just said I did not
Speaker 10: agree with that, and obviously nobody will.
Speaker 2: What should have he done? Should have he waved a
Speaker 2: white flag and said, Hamas, please don't do that again.
Speaker 10: But he hasn't. He hasn't he had any consideration for
Speaker 10: the people. He's just he's using it as an excuse
Speaker 10: to go in even when he's gone in what should
Speaker 10: have done, Laurie, Laurie, people's homes.
Speaker 2: And kill I've enjoyed this conversation thoroughly and ippreciate it.
Speaker 2: I hope you'll call back again and we can continue
Speaker 2: a good conversation. Thank you very much. Let me go
Speaker 2: to John in New York. John, save me, John, welcome.
Speaker 2: You're next on Night Side. John.
Speaker 8: I'm on that.
Speaker 6: I'm on this quick already.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you should have called earlier. Go ahead, John,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind? Yeah? I know.
Speaker 6: I always called the last minute because that's when I'm
Speaker 6: in the car going down the road.
Speaker 2: You know, okay, but we're running out of last minutes. Here,
Speaker 2: go ahead, I know.
Speaker 6: Are you ready for a joke.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, John, but give it a shot.
Speaker 6: One of my thoughts when you I didn't know this,
Speaker 6: you're you're a newscaster. Two. In addition to a talk
Speaker 6: show host, I worked wh.
Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 2: I worked for thirty one years for the CBS affiliate
Speaker 2: in Boston WBCTV. I was an investigative reporter. Go right ahead.
Speaker 11: I know I read about that, but you're still You're
Speaker 11: still doing it on your show. Also, you know you
Speaker 11: haven't you haven't lost the touch. You're very good at it.
Speaker 6: Anyhow, go ahead, when.
Speaker 11: You're talking about Trump talking to Putin for two hours,
Speaker 11: I think you know what a smart guy Donald is.
Speaker 11: I'm a businessman.
Speaker 1: He is.
Speaker 11: I think he was taught not only the whole purpose
Speaker 11: of the call, but he might have mentioned that, Hey, pal,
Speaker 11: if you give me a building permit to put a
Speaker 11: gigantic hotel up in Moscow, I'll make a deal with you.
Speaker 2: I think that would be a little blatant. But I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's a joke or if that's what
Speaker 2: you really believe.
Speaker 6: I'm just kidding around.
Speaker 2: I know you're called lady. Got a call earlier. I
Speaker 2: got to get one more in here, Okay, man, But
Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm right.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you very much for taking my call. Have
Speaker 11: a good night, and I'll speak to you later on something.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks John, to talk to you soon. Ed
Speaker 2: in Worcester, Ed you're late. I got you for a minute.
Speaker 2: You go right.
Speaker 5: Ahead, Okay. I had to stop drafting my articles of
Speaker 5: impeachment for President Rick to call in and remind everybody
Speaker 5: of one of Rush Limbaugh's nostrums, which is, and this
Speaker 5: is in regard to your caller, Laurie there from a
Speaker 5: minute ago. Yep, anytime somebody calls into a talk show
Speaker 5: and identifies themselves as a conservative or Republican, they're a fraud. No,
Speaker 5: they're not.
Speaker 2: Well, there was a lot of self identification there, but
Speaker 2: I was able to get her finally to say that
Speaker 2: what Trump did on the border was kind of okay, just.
Speaker 5: Kind of yeah, she's a Bernie Sanders Republican.
Speaker 2: That's the way that they're a Bernie Sanders Republican's Ed.
Speaker 2: I love it, you know what. I'm ending the show
Speaker 2: on a on a smile with you. Man. I really
Speaker 2: appreciate that call. I really do you almost read my mind.
Speaker 2: If you get my drift, then I think begs Ed
Speaker 2: talk soon.
Speaker 5: Okaye, man, all right, we're.
Speaker 2: Done for that night, Rob Brooks, great job. I want
Speaker 2: to take all the callers, particularly the new callers and
Speaker 2: the young callers and the older callers. I thank all
Speaker 2: the callers. Thank you very much for joining us. For
Speaker 2: those of you who listened, whether you were driving home
Speaker 2: for the Red Sox game or you listen for all
Speaker 2: four hours, I appreciate you very much. Done for the night.
Speaker 2: I want to thank Marita as well. Been a long day.
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Speaker 2: and I'll tell you what I really think. Have a
Speaker 2: great Wednesday or great Tuesday everyone, then, have a great Wednesday,